PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS-WHEN PHYSICIAN OBLIGED TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION GAINED THROUGH DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATION

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Abstract

In April of this year a Minnesota physician, Dr. Clayton E. May, treated for gunshot wounds a certain undesirable person, John Dillinger, very much in demand by the police. He further neglected to inform the police concerning his ministrations, and as a result, was tried in a federal court on a charge of harboring a fugitive wanted under a federal warrant, found guilty, and sentenced to serve two years in a penitentiary and to pay a fine of $1,000. Said a prominent English medical journal in commenting on the case: " . . . colleagues in every country will applaud his action in not betraying a professional trust."

Recommended Citation

PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS-WHEN PHYSICIAN OBLIGED TO DISCLOSE INFORMATION GAINED THROUGH DOCTOR-PATIENT RELATION, 32 Mich. L. Rev. 1164 (1934).
Available at: https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol32/iss8/15